(NETWORK-ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS ON URBANISATION IN THE SOUTH)

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During the years 1999-2001, with the support of the European Science Foundation, significant progress has been made by N-AERUS in the evaluation of the diversity and the potential of European research institutions regarding urban development policies and North-South co-operation in the urban sector. The three international workshops organised by N-AERUS on , "Innovative concepts and emerging concepts for sustainable urban management in developing countries: a European contribution", have emphasised the potential for innovative European approaches to researches on urban development in co-operation with developing countries.

One of the paradoxical lessons learnt from this collective initiative is that European research on urban issues in the developing countries is increasingly dependent on neo-liberal concepts, models and objectives defined by international finance institutions in a global context where these orientations have shown their limits, and where the gap between discourse and practice regarding key issues such as poverty alleviation, social justice, governance and sustainable urban development is steadily widening.

. Yet, despite their rich and diverse experience regarding urban development management and co-operation with developing countries, European research institutions seem unable to propose alternative models that can better serve the formulation and implementation of development policy.

Therefore, N-AERUS proposes to focus its seminar of May 15-17, 2003 on the neo-liberal consensus on urban development, placing emphasis on co-operative research from Europe and the South that offer new opportunities for other models to emerge. The seminar intends to draw the attention of European Commission institutions as well as of bilateral European co-operation, aid agencies and research institutions to the nature of and potentials of alternatives approaches to urban management issues in developing cities.

Note: Given the large number of contributions submitted to the workshop organising group, the discussants in each session will be asked to include in their presentation a synthesis of the other contributions dealing with the session's topic.

Authors will be invited to add to and comment on the synthesis presented by the discussants.

The outlines and full texts of selected contributions will be available soon on the N-AERUS web site <www.naerus.net>

If you cannot have access to the web site version of the papers, please contact Hilary Koziol at the following address: <hilary.koziol@wanadoo.fr>. The papers you need will be sent to you by e-mail.

Introduction and welcome address by Chantal Chanson-Jabeur, Deputy Director of the Research Centre SEDET (Sociétés en Développement dans le Temps et dans l’Espace), University of Paris 7.

- Michael Mattingly (Development Planning Unit, University College, London, UK)

- Alain Durand-Lasserve (CNRS-France)

- Adrian Atkinson (New Synergies in Development, Geneva & Technical University, Berlin, Germany),

- Carole Rakodi (International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University

of Birmingham, UK)

- Erhard Berner and Benedict Phillips (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, NL)

- Agnes Serre & Doris V.Sayago (Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)

- Alexander Jachnow (Habitat Unit, Berlin, Germany)

- Jean-Claude Bolay, Yves Pedrazzini, Adriana Rabinovich, Andrea Catenazzi & Carlos García Pleyán (IREC-Ecole Polytechnique Federale d’Architecture, Lausanne, Swizerland)

Chair : Carole Rakodi & Marcello Balbo

Rapporteur : Andrea Feix

Amitabh Kundu (Center for regional Development Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Catherine Baron (LEREPS, University,of Toulouse I)

Marcellon Balbo & Andrea Parisi

Nichola Awortwi (Institute of Housing Studies, The Hague)

Nneka Uchenna Ifeka (Gender Studies, Hull University)

Ilda Lourenço-Lindell (Departemnt of Human Geography, Stockholm University)

- Catherine Coit (Association Internationale des Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs, AITEC-Paris)

- Alain Gilbert (Department of geography, University College, London, UK)

- Marie Huchzermeyer (Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa)

- Ilda Lourenco-Lindell (Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University)

- Abderrahmane Diafat & Said Madani (Département d'Architecture, Université F.A. de Sétif, Algeria)

- Rutul Joshi (School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India)

- Paul Jenkins & H. Smith (Centre for Environment & Human Settlements - CEHS - School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

- Marc Gosse (Ecole d’Architecture de la Cambre, Brussels)

- Peter Gotsch (Universität Fredericiana Karlsruhe Fakultät Für Architektur)

- Françoise Navez-Bouchanine (URBAMA-CNRS, University of Tours)

- Charazed Moussannef (University of Annaba, Algeria)

- Brigida Proto (IUAV, Venice)

- Rosana Boullosa (IUAV, Venice)

- Flavio De Souza (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, and Visiting Scholar at the Brazil Center, University of Texas)

- Antje Ilberg (Faculty of Architecture, Dresden University of Technology)

- Marianne Kjellen (Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University)

- Vittorio Piovesan (IUAV, Venice)

- Deborah Bryceson (International Development Department, University of Birmingham) & Tatenda Mbara (Department of Rural Planning, Univesity of Zimbabwe).

- Jean-François Tribillon (Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-la-Villette & Association Internationale des Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs (AITEC)

- Christopher Cripps (Department of Architecture, Liverpool University)

- Fernando Murillo (FADU-Buenos Aires University)

- Emanuela De Menna (IUAV, Venice)

- Hélène Rivière d’Arc (CREDAL-IHEAL, CNRS Paris)

- Mariken Vaa (University of Oslo)

• Alan Gilbert
• Jean-François Tribillon
• Paul Jenkins
• Marie Huchzermeyer
• Wilbard Kombe
• Amitabh Kundu

Michael Mattingly

Marcello Balbo

Alain Durand-Lasserve

Marc Gosse